Privacy Statement
This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with this website. We are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites. Any external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such. Some technical terms used in this statement are explained in a Glossary.
General Statement
The Office of the Attorney General fully respects your right to privacy, and will not collect any personal information about you on this website without your permission. Any personal information which you volunteer to the Office will be treated with the highest standards of security and confidentiality, strictly in accordance with the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003.Collection and use of personal information
The Office of the Attorney General does not collect any personal data about you on this website, apart from information which you volunteer. Any information which you provide in this way is not made available to any third parties, and is used by the Office only in line with the purpose for which you provided it.Collection and use of technical information
Technical details in connection with visits to this website are logged by our internet service provider (ISP) for statistical purposes. No information is collected that could be used by us to identify website visitors. The technical details logged are confined to the following items:
- IP address of the visitors' network.
- the top-level domain name used (for example .i.e., .com, .org).
- the previous website address from which the visitor reached us, including any search terms used.
- traffic of visitors around this web site (for example pages accessed).
- the type of web browser used by the visitor.
The Office of the Attorney General will make no attempt to identify individual visitors, or to associate the technical details listed above with any individual. It is the policy of the Office never to disclose such technical information in respect of individual website visitors to any third party, unless obliged to disclose such information by a rule of law. The technical information will be used only by the Office of the Attorney General, and only for statistical and other administrative purposes. You should note that technical details, which we cannot associate with any identifiable individual, do not constitute personal data" for the purposes of the Data Protection Acts 1988 and 2003.
Glossary
IP Address
The identifying details for your computer (or internet company's computer), expressed in "internet protocol" code (for example 192.168.58.24). Every computer connected to the web has a unique IP address, although the address may not be the same every time a connection is made.
Web Browser
The piece of software you use to read web pages (e.g. Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator, Mozilla Firefox and Opera).